by Angela Guess Alistair Barr reports in the Wall Street Journal, “Alphabet Inc.’s Google is putting the leader of its artificial-intelligence research in charge of its online search engine, showing how important AI technology is to the future of the company’s main profit engine. AI chief John Giannandrea will take over from search leader Amit […]
Google and Movidius Collaborating to Bring Deep Learning to Mobile Devices
by Angela Guess George Leopold reports for Datanami, “Google and Movidius, a specialist in low-power machine vision chips, said this week they would collaborate to bring deep learning technology to mobile devices. Google said Wednesday (Jan. 27) it would integrate Movidius processors with the San Mateo, Calif., company’s software development tools. The search giant also […]
Google’s AI Beats a Top Player at the Game of Go
by Angela Guess Cade Metz reports in Wired, “In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, a computing system developed by Google researchers in Great Britain has beaten a top human player at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern contest of strategy and intuition that has bedeviled AI experts for decades. Machines have topped the […]
Google, Talend, and Partners Propose Dataflow as an Apache Incubator Project
by Angela Guess Laurent Bride recently wrote in the Talend blog, “There are many Data Processing Engines/Frameworks out there, some are fully open source like Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Apex while others are packaged and available as a service such as Google Dataflow. Most Apache open source projects combine streaming and batch data processing, […]
Google Offers New Deep Learning Course on Udacity
by Angela Guess Jordan Novet reports in VentureBeat, “Google today announced that it’s bringing a deep learning course to massively open online course (MOOC) provider Udacity. Deep learning is an increasingly popular type of artificial intelligence. Generally speaking, it involves training artificial neural networks on lots of data — like pictures — and then getting […]